Percy Sandman wants to write songs, become a record industry bigwig, and be the exception to the rule (Rule #4080: Record company people are shady). He promises to get his girlfriend, Chimera, signed to a record deal, but after he is fired from his job at the city's largest record label, she walks out of his life. It isn't long before he picks up all of the pieces. First, he finds love again with Epiphany. Then, he gets an opportunity to work as a producer at Bad Dream Records where he enters a world of sex, drugs and violence to help Hotshot, an up-and-coming gangster rapper, become a Rap Star all while trying to maintain his own moral integrity. When Sandman's love and professional lives begin to clash with one another, he realizes that he must either choose one or lose them both.